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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session
campaigns; protected residential addresses
Purpose
Allows a person, whose residential address is protected from public disclosure, as outlined, to provide an alternate mailing address and attest to the person's residential address when filing a committee organization statement or the annual financial disclosure statement that is required of public officers.
Background
An eligible person and any registered voter who resides at the same address as the eligible person may request that the general public be prohibited from accessing the person's identifying information, including: 1) the person's documents and voting precinct number contained in the person's voter registration record; and 2) if the person is a public official, the address of a property held in trust by the public official. An eligible person may request to have the person's personal identifying information sealed by filing a prescribed affidavit with the presiding judge of the superior court (presiding judge) in the county in which the person resides. On receipt of the affidavit, the presiding judge must file a petition with the clerk of the superior court on behalf of all requesting affiants. The presiding judge must review the petition and each attached affidavit to determine whether the action requested should be granted. If the judge concludes that the action requested will reduce a danger to the life or safety of the affiant, the judge must order that the information contained in the affiant's voter record be sealed for five years (A.R.S. § 16-153).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Allows a person to provide an alternate mailing address and to attest that the person's residence is in the electoral district for which the person proposes to represent when filing the person's committee organization statement or the annual financial disclosure statement required of public officers, if the person's residential address is:
a) required to be included on the committee organization statement or public officer's annual financial disclosure statement; and
b) is protected from public disclosure, as prescribed by court order sealing the person's voter record.
2. Makes technical changes.
3. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 23, 2026
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